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Topic	Worst game launch ever?
HeroDelTiempo17 07/11/21 7:40:50 PM #98:	NominateMoogles posted... 2 things. The Launch was that bad, the reason no one remembers the TORtanic (which was so overshadowed its not even on this list) is because XIV was on another level, the unreachable star of bad launches. Two: On what world is any mainline numbered FF game after 1997 not considered a AAA title? The answer to both of these is the same and it's because MMOs are typically very niche and very few of them are smash hits. They're both AAA but niche, and this is important. No one remembers bad launches for TOR and Elder Scrolls Online because mediocre failed MMOs are a dime a dozen. They went free-to-play and freemium and still get updates today, and no one cares. The reason FF14 1.0 is so legendary isn't because it was a failed mediocre MMO, it's because they rebooted it and it was SO crazy successful and good. They also literally wrote the failed 1.0 base game into the lore of 2.0, so it developed both an in-game and out-of-game mythology. THAT's the interesting part, not that FF 1.0 had a crappy launch, lots of MMOs did. --- I definitely did not forget to put the 2020 GOTD Guru winner, azuarc in my sig! <cite>HeroDelTiempo17 posted [p:955986593] in Worst game... [t:79558885]...</cite> <quote>NominateMoogles posted... </cite> <quote> 2 things. The Launch was that bad, the reason no one remembers the TORtanic (which was so overshadowed its not even on this list) is because XIV was on another level, the unreachable star of bad launches. Two: On what world is any mainline numbered FF game after 1997 not considered a AAA title?</quote> The answer to both of these is the same and it's because MMOs are typically very niche and very few of them are smash hits. They're both AAA but niche, and this is important. No one remembers bad launches for TOR and Elder Scrolls Online because mediocre failed MMOs are a dime a dozen. They went free-to-play and freemium and still get updates today, and no one cares. The reason FF14 1.0 is so legendary isn't because it was a failed mediocre MMO, it's because they rebooted it and it was SO crazy successful and good. They also literally wrote the failed 1.0 base game into the lore of 2.0, so it developed both an in-game and out-of-game mythology. THAT's the interesting part, not that FF 1.0 had a crappy launch, lots of MMOs did. --- I definitely did not forget to put the 2020 GOTD Guru winner, azuarc in my sig!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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